December NPD 2018 thread

[CosmicSex]

MasonADC said:

CosmicSex said:

Hypothetically if the Switch didn't sell over 2 million and we have a 6% drop from 2017 when November Switch was up and we know the 3Ds is down then the left over pie from about 4 million means that that the Xbox and PS4 made up at least 2 million in sales.  So either the Xbox sold gangbusters or the PS4 was up YoY.  I would say it is probably 1 million.  This is all speculation.

We don’t know if holiday sales were down in total, GameStop isn’t in the best position right now anyways 

Yes you are correct.  One thing that would help is to know what percentage of Hardware sales come from GameStop.   But even if they are the same or up, Switch would have to sell well over 2 million for the remaining share not to indicate a YoY growth for PS4 or an extreme lopsided result for the Xbox.   It all goes back to what Switch sales will wind up being.  Thats why the lack of info is so contentious for Benji.  The xbox is gonna need to blow it out of the part to keep the PS4 down YoY in my opinion and I believe that the PS4 outsold the xbox from watch sites like GameStop and Bestbuy.  Again this is all speculation.